DMV: A Day in the Life – Living off a Motorcycle – The Vagabond Gourmet

In this video, I take you through a typical day in the woods living off my NC750X, riding into town to charge up my devices and get supplies, then later sitting down to prepare a delicious home cooked meal in the great outdoors.

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hey what’s up this is Joe in this video
I’m going to kind of take you on a
breakdown of a typical day in the life
how I manage to do certain everyday
things while living in the woods how I
structure my day riding around on my
motorcycle and ultimately sitting down
to a delicious home-cooked meal in the
Great Outdoors
all right so uh it’s about 8:00 a.m. now
typically as soon as I wake up uh I sit
down and do 20 minutes of meditation
kind of just helps me get in a good head
space for the day so and after that the
number one thing is I got to have my
coffee I usually don’t even bother uh
warming it up typically what I’ll do is
just take an empty bottle like
this get a individual pack pack AG of
instant coffee throw it in the bottle
add a little
water shake it
up if it was like freezing outside I
would take the trouble and heat up the
water just cuz I think hot beverages uh
kind of warm you up but you know it’s
like 65° it’s not really necessary to
warm it up and the thing I do next is uh
walk over here and get my trash out of
the tree I hang all my trash fashing the
tree at night uh just to keep any
Critters
away I’m really pleased to see that uh
I’m virtually invisible from practically
all
angles and this sort of Thicket right
here can’t even really begin to see the
Camp until you come right on
it all right next I kind of take a look
at the uh condition of my Camp uh before
I leave there was a pretty strong wind
that kicked up yesterday and kind of
messed up some of this so I’m just going
to fix this real quick
grab my
trash put
it on top here under my uh bungee net
all right so now that I’ve gotten my
Camp uh kind of squared away and
collected all in my trash uh I’m going
to go ahead and head into town sit down
drink some more coffee and uh work on my
computer for a couple hours
all right so loath as I am to uh support
a lot of major corporations uh pretty
much everybody in this place already
knows me I got my same table I go to
every day and uh get a coffee and a
couple of sausage patties and I’ll just
kind of sit there and uh upload the
footage that I just took and uh sit
there and start uh chopping something
into a video
morning another day at the rat race
that’s
right thank you you think you win in the
long
F good morning good morning how are you
today I’m okay that’s good a little slow
today but we’ll get to it okay well slow
is good sometimes yeah there we go thank
you very much you’re
welcome we go all righty appreciate it
no problem have a good day you too
thanks
did not uh intend to be in there as long
as I was but I tried to uh install a
software update on my MacBook that
completely went kaput so I’ve been on
the phone with the people from Apple uh
for a while and finally I think got it
squared away but uh one of my external
hard drives is not working on my
computer so whatever there goes two
terabytes worth of footage I guess but
uh I’m walking over here to the grocery
store and uh going to think about
something to eat for dinner as well as
something I can get for like a small
lunch all right lunchtime just got a
couple of these these roasted chicken
quarters from uh the grocery store Deli
so I’m just going to kind of hang out
here in the shade and then after I
finished this I got one more thing I
need to do today which is uh run by the
post office I’ve uh got a bunch of like
extra clothes and stuff I’m tired of
carrying around so I’m going to package
that stuff up and uh send it back home
uh that way I don’t have to deal with it
all right so in here are just some
things that uh I find myself not really
using clothes I’m not wearing uh extra
glasses case which is something I never
use and some nicotine lozes so I’ve been
doing these lozenges uh for quite a
while but I was horrified when I learned
that these are absolutely packed with
aspartame which uh just kind of really
has a lot of bad implications as far as
overall health so uh I’m on like day two
of uh doing the patches and uh it’s not
quite enough at some point I might use
the lozes we’ll see but uh for now I
want all this as protame out of my
system what’s the address
well this uh wasn’t a particularly
fun-filled day in town uh I did get some
stuff uh done that needed to be done
like motorcycles uh computers have a
tendency to break down although in the
case of Apple uh it doesn’t happen very
often so I’m going to mosy on back to
Camp work on my computer for a bit take
a shower and then get started on dinner
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all right so this is my little $12 solar
shower I usually take this into town and
fill it up usually when I do laundry and
uh fill it up at the launder mat but
since I don’t need to do any laundry uh
anytime soon I just went ahead and
sacrificed a buck and uh got an extra
jug of water to uh throw in there
the best way that I’ve found uh for
getting a shower out here and using the
least amount of water possible I’ll
first go and uh just kind of run the
water over me get wet as a washcloth
I’ll take one sock get it nice and soapy
and then kind of scrub off with that and
then go ahead and rinse off you use
about maybe 3/4 of a gallon maybe a
little more I’m also wearing my swim
trunks uh just so I don’t catch an
indecent exposure charge in the event
that uh somebody comes hiking through
here I doubt that’s going to happen but
better safe than
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sorry there’s nothing like a good shower
uh while you’re living in the woods I
don’t uh really hold a lot of Hope for
my uh nicotine patch it did get wet but
I’m going to see if it’ll maybe dry out
a little bit if the uh adhes iive will
adhere a little better so now I’m going
to grab my laptop and uh get done some
of the work that I wasn’t able to do uh
earlier uh because my computer was on
the fritz
where are you going buddy you smell a
female he’s on the C
I’m GNA follow him and see where he
goes kind of curious about
this sure was in a hurry
I’m happy to say I got maybe 70% of the
rough outline done for my next video so
over the course of the next uh three or
4 days I’m going to go back through the
footage I’ve got chop everything
together record in a voice over audio if
need be until ultimately I get it into
more or less of a coherent product uh
hopefully by this Thursday at 400 p.m.
eastern time so meanwhile It’s been a
very productive day so I’m about ready
for a little bit of the Vagabond
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Gourmet so today’s recipe is going to be
liver and onions with sauteed mushrooms
garlic and herb butter half and half and
a spritz of lime this has been Tha out
for uh since I picked it up maybe 4
hours it’s just about
completely Tha out so I’m going to rinse
this off with some water soak it in some
half and half while I wait for that to
soak I’m going to go ahead and chop up
my onion and uh get everything else
ready all right so I’m going to carry
this far away from my Camp wild animals
uh are irresistibly drawn to the smell
of liver they always say to wash it off
I don’t know if it really needs to be
but I’m going to do it
anyway got to get this
liever covered with the half and
half I’m going to kind of Reserve about
half of this just kind of set this
aside all right so now I’m going to dice
up about half of this onion that I
bought I was was going to use a lemon
but uh all the lemons at the supermarket
were like really soft and kind of
shriveled up but the limes are really
good so uh same
difference interestingly enough there’s
no seeds in that so anyway I’m going to
let this uh liver marinate for about
another 30 minutes and then uh go ahead
and move on to the next step
now what I’m going to do is get my uh
chopped up onion also got these
mushrooms which are uh seasoned with
herbs and garlic go ahead and sauté
those up with uh some of this avocado
oil
spray oh yeah those seasoned mushrooms
smell good
oh yeah
baby all righty so these are just about
done you can see I got a nice uh
caramelization on the onions they’re
sort of translucent and uh the mushrooms
are soft I got this uh Cary gold garlic
and herb butter so uh I’m going to add a
couple tablespoons of that and uh throw
it in there just to finish the last uh
bit of the cooking process for
these now I go ahead and set these aside
hopefully without burning myself for
spilling all my delicious
uh stuff all over the woods out here get
a little bit more avocado oil right so
I’m going to go ahead and start adding
my liver one piece at a
time very important with liver not to
cook it too long it’s got a very low
threshold if you overcook it it gets
it’s kind of
rubbery all right the liver seems to be
about done once you start seeing the
juices coming through the top surface so
uh these are about ready I’m going to go
ahead and set them
aside all right just had to switch
cameras about Midway through
incidentally let me know in the comments
below uh which camera you preferred
camera a or camera B just uh let me know
which one you like
better last piece of
liver that’s absolutely hotter than hell
scissors I find usually the easiest
thing chopping up meat as liver cooked
Perfect all right get this guy going
more stable to do this with the pot on
the
stump all right a couple more
tablespoons of
butter turn the flame way down
low a little bit more butter why not
this uh recipe by the way keto
friendly uh except for the onions the
onions have a little bit of a sugar
content all right so now this is about a
half a pint left of this I’m going to
add maybe half of this and it’s going to
make almost kind of a French uh cream
and butter
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sauce oh
yeah now while I’m letting that simmer
for a while I’m going to go ahead and
add some uh Pink Himalayan sea salt
I’m going to give it a spritz of
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lime I was going to add pepper to this
but uh I forgot to pick some up at the
grocery store so uh in Li of pepper I’m
going to use this fire roasted garlic
and habanero sauce which is made by
melindas and that’ll give it a little
bit of a
kick all right let’s see what we
got I feel like with this dish I’ve
earned the title of the Vagabond Gourmet
uh this is absolutely
fantastic about as close to fine dining
uh as you can get in the woods liver’s
got a very strong flavor so people will
typically soak it in milk or buttermilk
this is absolutely out of this
world now I finished cooking I got my
dishes back there soaking I’m going to
go ahead back to my tree where I hang
all my
trash typically after dinner what I like
to do is just kind of go for a short
walk you know if I see something
interesting I’ll take some video
my day is not always this uh rigidly
structured or busy and uh that meal that
I cooked is uh you know a little more
complicated than stuff that I would
normally cook out here I got this kind
of a book idea that has been swirling
around in my head for a little while so
what I’ve been doing for about the last
25 days is uh sitting down and typing a
thousand words you know I’d eventually
like to publish something along the
lines of sort of a how-to guide and some
of the adventures that uh I used to have
before I decided to start a YouTube
channel when and if this thing gets
published uh is anybody’s guess but uh
I’ll probably look into kind of an
Amazon deal it just seems like the
simplest way to get it out there so stay
tuned for that hopefully it’s some point
uh it’ll be available uh we’ll see but
uh
all right so to quote the movie Airplane
apparently I picked the wrong day to
give up nicotine lozes uh almost since
it began uh this day has been a total
Fiasco uh especially with my computer uh
being on the fritz and totally threw a
wrench into all the plans but I got it
done I got my thousand words typed got
my dishes done I think that just about
wraps are up so this brings me to what
is absolutely my favorite part of the
day uh which is when I sit down and do
absolutely nothing except read a book
the time that I spend reading is uh just
absolutely sacred I’m a pretty slow
reader but uh nevertheless I tend to
read about two bucks a month on average
right now I’ve been going through kind
of a kick on uh the classics and
American literature so thus far I’ve
read The Great Gatsby The Grapes of
Wrath and I’m now reading Moby Dick
which was little hard to get into you
know it’s he uses a lot of sort of
antiquated phrasing but um after getting
into it it’s it’s absolutely a fantastic
story so as always if you enjoyed this
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and we’ll see you on the road
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